The Toshiba Excite is the latest 10 inch Android tablet from Toshiba. It’s not yet available for purchase in the US, but now you can pick one up in the UK from Carphone Warehouse for £399 and up. The tablet is thinner and lighter than the 10 inch Thrive tablet I reviewed last year — and it doesn’t have the removable…

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Google has launched a public beta of the Google Chrome web browser for Android. It’s available from the Android Market for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 and up. The new browser uses the same rendering engine as the desktop version of Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux — and it has the same user interface, so it should be…

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Research in Motion plans to roll out version 2.0 of its operating system for the BlackBerry PlayBook operating system later this month — and the company is starting to show off some new features. We already knew that PlayBook OS 2.0 would include support for some Android applications as well as native email, contact, and calendar apps. But Pocket Lint…

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Toshiba has introduced a new ultrabook with a 14 inch display. It will be available soon in Australia for $1499 Australian, or a little over $$1699 US — but computers tend to be pretty pricey down under. I suspect the Toshiba Satellite U840 will be a little more affordable if and when it makes it to the States. The U840…

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Cowon has released a new Android-powered portable media player in Korea. The Cowon Z2 Plenue has a highly customized version of Android, a 1 GHz Telechips ARM Coretx-A8 processor, and support for 1080p HD video playback. The PMP has a 3.7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel AMOLE Ddisplay, WiFI, Bluetooth, FM radio, and built-in speakers and a mic. It’s available with…

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The company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux software have decided to end funding for the Kubuntu variation of the operating system. Kubuntu is basically what you get when you take Ubuntu’s core software and tack on a custom version of the KDE desktop environment in place of the Unity user interface that the main branch of Ubuntu has used for…

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The folks behind the Raspberry Pi $25 computer say that they could start taking orders by the end of February. This isn’t the first release date we’ve seen — the computers were supposed to be ready to go in December, but that didn’t happen. But not it looks like the first batch of 10,000 should finish production by February 20th….

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Windows tablet PC maker Netbook Navigator has launched a new model with a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N570 dual core processor and a starting price of $499.99 — if you don’t mind picking up a model with no operating system. The base price includes a Netbook Navigator NAV10T tablet with a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel capacitive pixel multitouch…

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Once upon a time, smartphones were just the expensive cousins of cheap cellphones that could make calls, maybe play a few ringtones, and if you were lucky surf a few web pages. Today smartphones are tiny computers that you can fit in your pocket… which might help explain why more more smartphones were shipped last year than traditional PCs –…

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Android tablets with 7 inch displays seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days… or at least available for around $199. But there are a few things that Toshiba’s $380 Thrive 7 tablet offers that you won’t find from low-cost tablets from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lenovo, or Coby. The Toshiba Thrive 7, for instance, has a high resolution 1280 x…

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Chinese tablet maker Zenithink is making Google Android 4.0 available for most of the company’s recent 7 and 10 inch tablets. That includes the Zenithink C71 which gained a bit of attention recently when developer Aaron Seigo announced that it would be the basis of the new Spark tablet with KDE Plasma Active Linux software. While the Spark will come…

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A team of independent developers have ported a beta version of CyanogenMod 7 to run on the NOOK Tablet. CM7 is a custom version of Google Android based on the open source version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread. At the moment there are some serious bugs with CyanogenMod 7 for the NOOK Tablet, so the developers have removed the download links…

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